Broaching the subject with Everett... to spice things up more often?

For Dorothy, this was a mountain too steep to climb.

How on earth was she supposed to bring it up?

"I should just drop it. What if Everett... Maybe he's just too worn out from work, and that's why he's not in the mood?"

Wouldn't she just be wounding his pride then?

Karen smacked her lips, freshly changed and walking out with Dorothy, chatting away.

"So, what you're saying is, Everett's not up for it in the bedroom anymore?!"

Just as Dorothy was about to respond, out of the corner of her eye, she spotted Jeffrey and Everett standing side by side not too far away.

All four of them fell silent, the awkwardness thick enough to cut with a knife.

At that moment....

Dorothy wondered if Everett had caught that last part...

burst into laughter, bending over

Your wife is here complaining to mine that

Great, Dorothy's heart just

sidled up to Jeffrey, her smile beaming as she teased Everett, "Yeah, Dorothy was just telling

spoke up, his gaze

that moment, Dorothy wished she could just dig a hole and bury

this topic with

didn't

this direction, but then she realized... she was indeed the one who had mentioned Everett's lack of

"What exactly?"

closer, wrapping an arm

it's not

urgency, struggling to find

before whispering,

"I wasn't venting!"

hands, "She did! Dorothy, don't blame me for spilling the beans. You did say his frequency was lacking! Forgot that? You even mentioned being too shy to talk

knew she was in for a rough

...

fell over the Bay

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